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The multiple problems of street and gang violence, knives, other weapons and drugs in Bristol happening right now 👇. We need urgent action alongside police efforts to stop gang fights (mainly between the 16s and the 24s gangs) and make neighbourhoods in Easton, Knowle and

Social care vacancies cited in good The Times and The Sunday Times article. Despite 10% rise in NLW to £11.44, not enough to recruit and retain care workers. We need: 'care as a career' pathways, long-term incentives from care providers, recognition that 30% margins are

The latest reminder - last night - of the street gang violence in Bristol's Easton area, which has left two with stab wounds, one critical. Tougher measures needed to resolve the 16s, 24s and other gang warfare on Bristol's streets.itv.com/news/westcount…

Enhanced stop and search powers now granted to Avon and Somerset Police for the Easton area, following a series of serious outbreaks of gang violence and knife crime in Bristol. Nine arrests in single incident shows scale of problem. bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-n…

So… I just plugged the Green Party manifesto tax plans into my chart of how each party’s election plans would impact the UK tax burden and, well, have a look for yourself👇 A bigger tax burden than the UK has ever had. Ever. By quite a long way…

What are The Labour Party's social care plans? 2/6 2. 'Home first' principle: Locally delivered services and support for people "to live independently for as long as possible". >> Already widely adopted; for years, local authorities have had 'home first' policy to save money on high

What are The Labour Party 's social care plans? 1/6 1. 'National Care Service': 'Build consensus for the longer-term reform needed to create a sustainable National Care Service'. >> The Labour Party forgets it commissioned this The Fabian Society 2023 radical, bonkers, unworkable roadmap:

What are The Labour Party's social care plans? 3/6 3. Partnership on discharge: A programme for the NHS and the social care sector to work together on hospital discharge. >> Meaningless waffle; they already do. Only bold @Conservative initiatives like Dorset Council UK reablement centres

What are The Labour Party 's social care plans? 4/6 4. 'Fair pay': A "Fair Pay Agreement" in adult social care "to set fair pay, terms and conditions" and training plans.' >> Ill-defined waffle. 95% of care delivered by independent providers with few incentives to pay properly. Needs

What are The Labour Party's social care plans? 5/6 5. 'Visiting rights: A guarantee of the rights of people in residential care to be able to see their families'. >> Meaningless. Post-Covid, few if any care homes restrict visiting rights of relatives, nor should they. CQC Brasil guidance

What are The Labour Party's social care plans? 6/6 6. 'Role of care workers: Regulators tasked with assessing the role social care workers can play "in basic health treatment and monitoring".' >> Nothing new. Upskilling of care workers to basic medical tasks already widely prevalent and

This is the chair of the Bristol Music Trust, which runs the Bristol Beacon, recently refurbished at a cost of £132m by Labour.

My commitment to #Bristol voters to prioritise tackling knife crime - a largely forgotten but vitally important issue in this election: 👇

Another stabbing incident involving a gang of teenage boys in #Bristol city centre yesterday evening. Almost a weekly occurrence. And yet my suggestion of breaking the gangs, more stop and search etc was greeted with horror by other parties at hustings this week. Bristol Live 👇

#Bristol police have made an arrest in connection with the knife crime incident on 27 June. A 13-year old. The victim remains in hospital. Also a 13-year old. Whoever is elected in the city this week, this should be their first call, first meeting, first priority. Bristol Live

This is worrying. Gilt yield rises mean a higher debt interest bill. The OBR says a 1% rise in gilt yields could add £9.6bn to government debt interest payments which could end up more than wiping out any additional funding for capital projects...